In 2005, police accused Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, 53, of kidnapping and forcible confinement after he was allegedly involved in kidnapping his daughter in an attempt to deprogram her from what he said at the time was a cult.

According to sources, Smart will testify that Mitchell was motivated primarily by sex and not religion in kidnapping her, and that his behavior was inconsistent with that of a 'prophet,' which he proclaimed himself to be.

It was UN officials who cooperated with Hizbollah in kidnapping three Israeli soldiers on the Lebanon border by refusing to let Israel view UN films of the kidnapping, which occurred as UN observers stood by and observed.

But kidnapping is already illegal in Arizona, so the purpose of that law must be to attack coyotes who are simply ferrying illegal immigrants in Arizona, and to criminalize charitable “underground railroads” that shelter the immigrants in the state.